MATTER OF WILL OF SIMMONS

No. 7825SC1044.

258 S.E.2d 466 (1979)

43 N.C. App. 123

In the Matter of the WILL of Glenn Edison SIMMONS, Deceased.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 2, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gaither & Gorham, by James M. Gaither, Jr., and J. Samuel Gorham, III, Hickory, for caveators-appellants.

Corne & Pitts by Larry W. Pitts and Stanley J. Corne, Newton, for propounders-appellees.


HEDRICK, Judge.

By various assignments of error, based on numerous exceptions noted in the record, caveators attack the admission of certain testimony of the witnesses Pitts, Townsend and Hedrick. Caveators argue that their testimony was hearsay and in violation of the "Dead Man's" statute, G.S. § 8-51. They contend that the hearsay rule operates to exclude certain of this testimony because such testimony was offered...

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